the weirdest commercial on TV right now

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...is the one for mcdonald's where a dad is rapping about the hockey card his son wants.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Sunday, 23 November 2003 06:48 (twenty-two years ago)

the subway one where the parachuting guy says 'what would jared do?' and then jared is screaming.

wtf?

what does jared and his fat ass have to do with parachuting?

― A Girl Named Sam (thatgirl), Sunday, 23 November 2003 09:07 (twenty-two years ago)

weirdest infomercial: the one with the twin midgets who try to sell you real estate or some such shit.

― Jeremy the Kingfish (Kingfish), Sunday, 23 November 2003 09:16 (twenty-two years ago)

The weirdest commercial I've ever seen, which I don't think you have in Canada, is that one for Brawny paper towels, where that big burly guy is making breakfast. "It's O-K. It's alllll right." I find it really disturbing.

― antexit (antexit), Sunday, 23 November 2003 16:10 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw one this afternoon advertising Christmas presents for dogs. You can get a catalogue, apparently.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Sunday, 23 November 2003 18:02 (twenty-two years ago)

my goodness!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Sunday, 23 November 2003 18:03 (twenty-two years ago)

has anyone else seen this mcdonald's commercial?

― s1utsky (slutsky), Sunday, 23 November 2003 18:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I saw a commercial on network television recently for some sort of coffeemaker. The woman sets the timer for sixty seconds and then walks into the other room, disrobes, and has sex with her system. Fast-forward sixty seconds later where she's drinking coffee. She says "awesome" under her breath, and her fat slob of a husband walks by saying, "I know, honey. I know."

The weird thing is, I saw that same gag on "Married...With Children" ten years ago.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Monday, 24 November 2003 19:46 (twenty-two years ago)

One of these sandwhich places (Firehouse Subs?) and there's these two guys on a park bench. One notices the other eating an apparently sub-par sandwhich and asks, "What, were you raised by wolves?" The guy has a flashback where he's suckling a wolf teet with other wolfcubs and says, "Yes, yes I was." It makes me a little uncomfortable.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Monday, 24 November 2003 20:24 (twenty-two years ago)

has sex with her "system"?

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 24 November 2003 21:12 (twenty-two years ago)

yeah i was gonna say

― bad jode (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 24 November 2003 21:17 (twenty-two years ago)

i am imagining her riding a speaker a lá howard stern

― dyson (dyson), Monday, 24 November 2003 21:19 (twenty-two years ago)

THAT QUIZNO'S AD IS SIMULTANEOUSLY AWFUL AND HORRIBLE.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 24 November 2003 21:39 (twenty-two years ago)

There's one where a rainbow unicorn(?) pinata attacks children.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 24 November 2003 21:54 (twenty-two years ago)

The entire Juicy Fruit Twisted Fruit campaign is genius! The office ambush ad is CLASSIC!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 24 November 2003 21:55 (twenty-two years ago)

(Although not as classic as the psycho-pinata.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 24 November 2003 21:55 (twenty-two years ago)

dan, isn't awful and horrible pretty much the same thing?

btw I agree on both counts with you.

― A Girl Named Sam (thatgirl), Monday, 24 November 2003 21:56 (twenty-two years ago)

This isn't so much "weird" in the same "disturbing" vein as these other commercials, but seeing Dave Chappelle shill Pepsi by getting his pants eaten by a robot vacuum cleaner was a bit head-scratch-inducing.

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Monday, 24 November 2003 22:02 (twenty-two years ago)

what about when redman and method man built a giant rubber band made out of gum to foil a bicyclist?

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 24 November 2003 22:06 (twenty-two years ago)

please someone tell me they've seen this mcdonald's commercial!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 24 November 2003 22:07 (twenty-two years ago)

isn't awful and horrible pretty much the same thing

I think awful and awesome mean pretty much the same thing.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Monday, 24 November 2003 22:10 (twenty-two years ago)

what about the ad where the woman says 'honey, we're going to eat healthy from now on' and then whips out a bucket of kfc?

― maura (maura), Monday, 24 November 2003 22:11 (twenty-two years ago)

'inspiring awe' is not the common, modern usage of this word but of course our Mr. Perry is not a standard man.

― A Girl Named Sam (thatgirl), Monday, 24 November 2003 22:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Anyone seen the Anchor one with the cows that look like the baby out of south park talking rubbish at each other? My brother and I looked at each other and just went "Wha?"

― dog latin (dog latin), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 14:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes! How weird is that advert? It makes no sense!

― smee (smee), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 14:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Is that a Joel Veitch commercial? http://www.rathergood.com

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 14:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Nope, here it is...

http://www.sumo-dojo.com/inc.html

― smee (smee), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 14:49 (twenty-two years ago)

OH MY GOD IT'S A WEEBL AD!!!!!!!!!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 15:04 (twenty-two years ago)

You know they wobble but they don't fall down...

― smee (smee), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 15:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Not that one.

Yes Dan.

The Switch advert with the PENGUINGS was pretty wierd. Luckily I have only seen it once so the mystery has been kept and I think Mastercard are GRATE!

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Sarah, I think there's more than one, I'm sure I've heard them do 2 different songs now....

― smee (smee), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)

what about the ad where the woman says 'honey, we're going to eat healthy from now on' and then whips out a bucket of kfc?

Yes! I still cannot believe KFC had the audacity to make this ad.

― El Diablo Robotico (Nicole), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 15:13 (twenty-two years ago)

I can. Maybe compared to Twinkies it IS healthier.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 15:39 (twenty-two years ago)

One about "extreme makeover".
They take the submissions of people who are feeling very bad about their physical appearence in general and get them to hollywood for their "full body lift" or whatever, wich can consist of a serie of breast augmentation, liposuction, facelift, rhinoplasty, cosmetic dentistry, eye surgery, fashion stylist consultation, hair restoration, hair stylist consultation, make-up, other plastic surgeries. etc.
What they say during the "before and after" picture presentation was very degrading: "from horror show to showtime!". The guy looked like a nerd but it was not a horror show.
I'm for extreme body modifications but this ad made me think of a detail in snowcrash, where the most popular virtual reality avatars were the "barbie" and the "ken" standard of beauty du jour, so when walking down a virtual street one would cross a lot of people who looked all the same.. They should get Orlan on their "extreme team" of specialists. I want to see one of them "furries" who feel incomplete because ve doesn't have a leopard skin or something, or someone who wants to look like a cubist biped electric ray who would go: "come-on team! Let's do some serious bone shattering then sculpt that flesh!"

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 16:02 (twenty-two years ago)

A couple of other little things that send waves of discomfort through my body:

That whispery voice for Skittles--"taste the rainbow"
That twitchy little beast they've got leaping aroundin Honeycomb ads. Ugh.

― andrew m. (andrewmorgan), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 17:01 (twenty-two years ago)

has that Weeblcow Anchor advert been on TV? it's quite good.

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 17:05 (twenty-two years ago)

i loved the recent 'be good to your inner self' (your inner self being a blue furry muppet) advert for that yoghurt type stuff

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 17:06 (twenty-two years ago)

The Phones 4 U ad where the two indie troubadors are driving around Britain is certainly a departure from a bored-sounding Paul Merton. I kinda like it.

― Markelby (Mark C), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I heard some blurb about that KFC ad, saying they weren't being allowed to run it anymore.

― oops (Oops), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 17:09 (twenty-two years ago)

I think I should be congratulated for successfully resisting the temptation to post the centaur-booty pic in response to the KFC ad.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 17:10 (twenty-two years ago)

not that weird really but i watched a little TV last weekend in the hotel room (!!! first time in about a year) and there was a commercial for a total soccer mom minivan and the background music was this old modest mouse song.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 17:33 (twenty-two years ago)

oh you know what else? those mcdonald's ads that end with a quick zoom into someone licking sesame seeds off their lips. so disgusting!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 17:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I just came back to this thread to see the new answers. I really need to start proofing my posts. How I got the word "husband" confused with "system" is beyond me. All I can figure is that someone in the office said the word "system" just as I was about to type out "husband." Weird.

That wolf ad for Quizno's disturbs me too. There's no need to see a grown man stick his face into a lactating wolf's laserjet on commercial televison.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 18:12 (twenty-two years ago)

that's a very hilarious typo, it's like when my friend said "sandwich" instead of "soundtrack" last week

― s1utsky (slutsky), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 18:15 (twenty-two years ago)

Epic Sandwiches will be my new delicatessen, and only you and I will be in on the joke.

― Pleasant Plains (Pleasant Plains), Tuesday, 25 November 2003 18:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I have always been really, really upset by the Goldfish crackers slogan. "The snack that smiles back: Goldfish!" Err wot?

― Allyzay, Wednesday, 26 November 2003 02:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I say wot you want.

― Not Captain Sensible (Ned), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 02:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Not running anymore, but my vote for the weirdest yet most amazing commercial on TV in recent months was the one for (I think) EA Sports football video game, starring Warren Sapp and Tracy Morgan from SNL. Morgan has this crazed wild-eyed thing going on, hearing voices and stuff. I cracked up literally every single time that commercial ran.

― Baked Bean Teeth (Baked Bean Teeth), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 03:00 (twenty-two years ago)

I love the weeblcows ad, I wish they'd show shit like that here.

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 03:34 (twenty-two years ago)

There is an ad for Campari running in Germany where a group of verrray sexay Southern European type people are in a verrray sexay Southern European bar -- at which point a verrray sexay woman dumps Campari all over a verrray sexay man's white shirt and procedes to lick it off, concentrating on the nipple area.

I was immediately reminded of the Quizno's ad.

― Colin Meeder (Mert), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 09:50 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...

The AOL ad where Snoop Dogg drops in randomly to say, "Now wait just one minizzle!"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Saturday, 27 December 2003 18:58 (twenty-two years ago)

I am baffled by the Progresso soup commercials (or whatever the brand name is) where a middle-aged husband goes to make some Campbell's soup and the middle-aged wife says, "Oh, no, the kids are gone now so we can eat healthy" or whatever and whips out the Progresso. WTF? Is Progresso saying that it's target customers are people who have been feeding their children garbage for 18 years? "We'll eat dog shit until they go off to college, and then we feast ..." Again I say, WTF?

― jewelly (jewelly), Saturday, 27 December 2003 19:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, and by the way, is anyone else amused by the Yoplait commercials where the women go on and on about how "good" Yoplait is ("back rub good," "shoe-shoppin' good," etc. etc.) and it seems so very very clear that the subtext is: these women are lesbians! That is the subtext isn't it? I want them to make more commercials just so I can see how far they'll go with the lezzie implications, if in fact that's really what's going on.

― jewelly (jewelly), Saturday, 27 December 2003 19:27 (twenty-two years ago)

I like the "Hot Dogs Like Pepsi" commercial

― WestCoastModJ, Saturday, 27 December 2003 19:30 (twenty-two years ago)

The ad for the Gillette razors with four blades are pretty funny...

"You don't really need four blades, do you? Wrong."

It's like it incoporates the general absurdity of having a razor with four blades but says, "we know it's unnecessary but it's really necessary at the same time."

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Saturday, 27 December 2003 20:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh and that girl with the short black hair in the Yoplait commercial is hot.

― Aaron W (Aaron W), Saturday, 27 December 2003 20:21 (twenty-two years ago)

she is in some indie band, I shit you not, but now I can't seem to find out which one it is.

― anthony kyle monday (akmonday), Saturday, 27 December 2003 20:26 (twenty-two years ago)

Is she lezzed up though? Inquiring minds etc.

― jewelly (jewelly), Sunday, 28 December 2003 06:54 (twenty-two years ago)

four years pass...

There is a pregnancy test commercial advertising the product as "the most advanced piece of technology you will ever pee on". Which, I believe, makes this the first time in my 20 year existence that I've heard the word "pee" in a television commercial.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqX7VxW3wL0

― Stevie D, Thursday, 17 January 2008 01:04 (eighteen years ago)

Yoplait girl = Leisha Hailey, right?

― jaymc, Thursday, 17 January 2008 01:27 (eighteen years ago)

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